Edexcel FD1 AS Specimen — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleFD1 AS (Further Decision 1 AS)
SessionSpecimen
TopicLinear Programming

2. \begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{1e2c1dc4-3724-4bba-961c-1c2ae7e649c4-3_1463_1194_239_440} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Figure 2}
\end{figure} A teacher buys pens and pencils. The number of pens, \(x\), and the number of pencils, \(y\), that he buys can be represented by a linear programming problem as shown in Figure 2, which models the following constraints: $$\begin{aligned} 8 x + 3 y & \leqslant 480
8 x + 7 y & \geqslant 560
y & \geqslant 4 x
x , y & \geqslant 0 \end{aligned}$$ The total cost, in pence, of buying the pens and pencils is given by $$C = 12 x + 15 y$$ Determine the number of pens and the number of pencils which should be bought in order to minimise the total cost. You should make your method and working clear.